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I’m thinking this was a false flag attack
Usually the false flag comes before the flagrant abuse of power to justify it.
The current abuse of power is only the beginning
Republicans are crisis actors.
yknow, i'm thinking that's not the case. Maybe a schizo right winger. But probably not a false flag. You wouldn't need to false flag this.
Why would you say that? Since when have the fascists needed any reasons beyond that they could to do something heinous?
why would they false flag it just to arrest some rando on the street? They're not going to false flag and charge biden with this shit lmao.
It was probably genuine and real, and some random mfer actually just did this. Occams razor.
also this, they wouldn't need to, they would just lie about it.
Why would they “False flag it?”? Why would they discuss war plans on Signal while at least one of the participants was in the Kremlin? As they say about criminals, they aren’t criminals because they are smart.
they're incompetent, not 4d chess gods.
They're stupid, not subverting the public to garner power as needed has literally not happened once.
It's not about arresting some rando off the street, it's about drumming up sympathy and making the other side look bad
and you don't need to false flag for that, literally all you have to do is the shit trump did during the kamala debate where you talk about how they "eat the dogs" or whatever.
Does the exact same thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
If anything, these people are completely unoriginal.
yeah, there are better ways of doing it lmao.
Reichstag fire was my first thought... Hopefully not.
However, nobody really GAF about a GOPer HQ being burned.